Oil palm land conversion in Pará, Brazil, from 2006–2014: evaluating the 2010 Brazilian Sustainable Palm Oil Production Program

Oil palm land conversion in Pará, Brazil, from 2006–2014: evaluating the 2010 Brazilian Sustainable Palm Oil Production Program

Global models of biophysical suitability for oil palm consistently rank Brazil as having the greatest potential for expansion, with estimates as high as 238 Mha of suitable lands. In 2010, Brazil launched the Sustainable Palm Oil Production Program (SPOPP) to incentivize oil palm development without...

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Main Authors: E Benami, L M Curran, M Cochrane, A Venturieri, R Franco, J Kneipp, A Swartos
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2018-01-01
Series:Environmental Research Letters
Subjects:
land use
Latin America
commodity agriculture
pasture
remote sensing
agricultural suitability
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaa270

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https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/aaa270

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